International aid agencies warned yesterday that Zimbabwe’s humanitarian crisis was deepening, with a sharp rise in acute child malnutrition and a worsening cholera epidemic.
President Robert Mugabe’s government has acknowledged the collapse of Zimbabwe’s health system, but he also claimed earlier this month that the epidemic had been brought under control and that there was “no [...]
The Vermont Department of Health is warning people about a nationwide outbreak of salmonella poisoning linked to certain raw, red tomatoes.
The Health Department says no illnesses have been reported in Vermont.
Since mid-April, there have been 145 reported cases of salmonella poisoning across the country caused by the rare Salmonella Saintpaul. At least 23 people have [...]
Family Health Insurance Vaccinations are a childhood ritual and provide vital protection against diseases like measles, mumps, rubella and polio, which can be extremely dangerous for young children. But a report, issued today by the Centers for Disease Control and Preve ntion, found an alarming 28 percent of toddlers have not been vaccinated according to [...]
Running counter to a nationwide overall decline in tuberculosis rates, TB cases in Seattle and King County have increased and, in 2007, reached a 30-year-record high of 161 active disease cases — three-quarters of them among people born in other countries. Tuberculosis, a contagious respiratory disease, today infects one of every three people on the [...]
This week, chlorine levels have been reduced enough for residents to at least bathe again and schools to reopen.
More than 300 of Alamosa’s 8,500 people have been sickened since the first victims showed symptoms on March 7. Some 73 salmonella cases have been confirmed, with 11 people requiring hospitalization. About half the [...]
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS): Minister of Health and Environment, Rudyard Spencer, has said that cases of dengue in Jamaica have been declining, with the Ministry intensifying its efforts to stem the spread of this and other communicable diseases. %26quot;The dengue fever outbreak which started in July last year, peaked in November and since then, has been [...]
Militants loyal to Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have clashed with Iraqi security forces in Basra and Baghdad for a second day in fighting that has killed more than 50 people and wounded hundreds.
The fighting between government forces and Sadr’s followers has spread to other towns in the south where Sadr wields wide influence, as a [...]
By Tan Ee Lyn HONG KONG, China (Reuters): Clarissa Poon was one of an estimated 50 million people who contracted mosquito-borne dengue fever last year. She spent an agonising week on a drip in a Bangkok hospital as she battled the potentially deadly disease. %26quot;There was not a single moment when I wasn’t aching everywhere, [...]
Feb. 29 (Bloomberg) — Chikungunya, the tropical disease
that spread to Europe from Asia last year, may have turned
deadly, according to scientists who studied an outbreak that
infected about 1.4 million people in India.
[...]
The ship was carrying 1,226 passengers and 556 crew members. This is the fourth suspected norovirus outbreak on the Ryndam since early last year. ———- Page compiled from Tribune news services
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